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LONDON. Royal Horticultural Society, June 25.—Mr. McLachlan in the chair.—Mr. Wilson exhibited a pot containing some seedling plants, in blossom, of the North British species Primula scotica, which is found in pastures of Orkney, Caithness, and Sutherland. The flowers are homomorphic, not having the stamens and pistils of different lengths as in most other Primulas. —Mr. Jackman exhibited small trees of Fagus sylvatica, with the leaves small, entire, and round. As the trees exhibited an erect form, with short branches, it would seem to be the result of some check to growth, the form of the leaf representing a less developed state than that of the ordinary type of tree.—Mr. Colinette, of Guernsey, forwarded some hazel wood found in peat near the coast of Guernsey, containing flint implements, stone rings, and pottery, presumably neolithic. No hazel is now known to be indigenous to Guernsey.—Mr. McLachlan exhibited specimens of Melanostoma scalare attached to flowering, stems of a grass, Glyceria fluitans.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 52, 382–384 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052382b0
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